Carel Van Dam
Chemical Engineer at Manaikan
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolCarel Van Dam is a chemical engineer with nine years' experience focused on process control, dynamic simulation and systems engineering across academia and industry in South Africa. He built an object‑oriented equation management framework in Matlab for dynamic simulation and parameter estimation during his MSc, presented at an international congress, and has applied modelling skills in roles from simulation engineering to on‑site control systems design. Comfortable with low‑level tools (FORTRAN, Flightlab, SciLab) and modern desktop/android development, he bridges traditional process engineering with practical software implementations. Carel is pursuing registration as a Professional Engineer and seeks roles that let him independently devise analytical, creative solutions to real plant problems while continuing hands‑on professional development.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Primary School, Primary School at Irene Primary SchoolB. Eng. (Hons), Process Control, B. Eng. (Hons), Process Control at The University of PretoriaMatriculation, Matriculation at Lyttelton Manor High SchoolPrimary and Secondary School, Primary and Secondary School at The Pretoria Chinese High School
English, Afrikaans, Chinese
Github Skills (62)
erp10
python10
django10
odoo10
sqlite-database10
no-database10
python-requests10
management10
graph-algorithms9
http9
sqlalchemy9
legacy-database9
complex-networks8
rest-api8
graph-theory8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Carelvd/cookiecutter
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
A cookiecutter template for a Sphinx extension
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
pythonsphinx-extensioncookiecutter-templatesphinxcookiecutter
Carelvd/pyparsing
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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